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Marking Memorial Day on eve of U.S. entry into WWII
PASCACK VALLEY—This week we go back to a past Memorial Day, when the people of Westwood gathered, just as we will on Monday, May 27 in solemn remembrance of those […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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Crystal ball didn’t see we’d ‘run out of dirt’
PASCACK VALLEY—It is confidently predicted this county will be the home of approximately one million people. That’s what Mr. Walter Phillip Shatts, field secretary of the Regional Plan Association of […]
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And then came Park Ridge!
PARK RIDGE—Last week we discussed the phenomenon of Borough Fever, which saw the Township of Washington break apart into the Pascack Valley’s eight municipalities between 1894 and 1906. Westwood had […]
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Business was blooming in Township’s bygone days
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Township once was a hotspot of flower growing. As the weather warms and our attention returns to gardening, here is the story of two long-gone local industries: Beuerlein’s […]
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Penny pinchers! In 1894, burglars hit the train stations
PASCACK VALLEY—We go back 120 years, to the night of April 26, 1894. Burglars were busy in the Pascack Valley. While the local citizens slept, thieves made their way up […]
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Advertising from the icebox era
WESTWOOD—Refrigerators are among those things we don’t think much about until the power goes out. We have all put our lightning reflexes to the test during an outage, opening and […]
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Another one bites the dust: Bootlegger’s den at Overbrook
HILLSDALE—“Two 300-gallon stills, hundreds of barrels and bottles, and all the paraphernalia necessary to conduct a huge distillery, were uncovered last Friday in a raid on the former Overbrook Country […]
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‘Parking petters’ vex peaceable Township of Washington
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Off the beaten path from the Pascack Valley railroad line, the Township of Washington had stayed rural well into the 20th century. In the 1920s, the population was […]
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Everyone’s going horseless!
PASCACK VALLEY—In the featured photograph, taken in the early 1900s, two early automobiles kick up dust in a race on Broadway in Park Ridge. The drivers are heading in the […]
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David P. Patterson and the creation of a railroad suburb
HILLSDALE—The corner of Patterson Street and Hillsdale Avenue is nothing out of the ordinary these days. Occupied by one of many banks in the Pascack Valley, customers go back and […]